Arrest of "female monster" leading an online gambling ring worth nearly 100 billion VND

On August 31, the Investigation Police Agency of Ha Tinh Province Police announced that it had successfully dismantled a professional inter-provincial and transnational gambling and gambling ring with a scale of nearly 100 billion VND, and issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute 19 defendants for the crimes of "Gambling" and "Organizing gambling". The ringleader of this ring is Dam Thi Hai Ha (born in 1993, residing in Kim Son commune, Son Tay town, Hanoi).

In addition, the Criminal Police Department of Ha Tinh Provincial Police has summoned 15 other related subjects to determine the level of violation and handle them according to the provisions of law.

According to the police, this gambling organization operates in the following way: Chinese subjects (publishers) hire people to create the website fbslive.com and the FBS application to create a gambling system.

The gambling system “fbslive.com” is an online gambling game portal operating on Android, IOS, Windows operating systems used for devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers…

The Fbslive system integrates many different games such as Sic Bo, Lottery, Xoc Dia, Lottery, Betting... and uses virtual money (called xu) with the convention that 1 xu is equivalent to 1,000 VND for subjects to buy and bet in Fbslive games. This game portal allows gamblers to deposit and withdraw money to their bank accounts to receive gambling money.

The identities of the subjects are: Dam Thi Hai Ha (born in 1993, residing in Kim Son commune, Son Tay town, Hanoi), Dam Thi Minh Tam (born in 1998, residing in Lien Bao commune, Vu Ban district, Nam Dinh province), Nguyen Phu Vinh (born in 1986, residing in the collective of the Machinery and Spare Parts Import-Export Company, Lane 558, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Gia Thuy Ward, Long Bien District, Hanoi).

Tran Phong Thien (born in 1996, residing in Tien Long commune, Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province), Nguyen Phi Quan (born in 1990, residing in Nhat Tan commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province), Nguyen Thanh Dat (born in 1989, residing in TDP 3, Viet Hung ward, Long Bien district, Hanoi city), Mai Van Hiep (born in 2003, residing in Quang Binh commune, Kien Xuong district, Thai Binh province).

Nguyen Van Do (born in 1987, residing in Cam Ly commune, Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province), Ha Huu Manh (born in 1988, residing in Hai Luu commune, Song Lo district, Vinh Phuc province), Tran Hai Duc (born in 1995, residing in Nam Thang commune, Nam Truc district, Nam Dinh province), Le Tuan Son (born in 1994, residing in Quang Vinh commune, An Thi district, Hung Yen province), Trinh Xuan Long (born in 1996, residing in Phu Dong commune, Gia Lam district, Hanoi city).

Phan Khac Hien (born in 1991, residing in Cam My commune, Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province), Nguyen Thi Hong Dien (born in 1985, residing in Trung Do ward, Vinh city, Nghe An), Hoang Hai Yen (born in 1985, residing in Tan Dan commune, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province), Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh (born in 1995), Ngo Thi Thuy Van (born in 1985), Ha Thi Hoai (born in 1984) and Nguyen Thi Hoa (born in 1991) all reside in Duc Tho town, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province.

Previously, on July 21, 2023, the Criminal Police Department coordinated with the Technical Department, Duc Tho District Police and Vinh City Police, Nghe An Province to search, arrest, and summon 11 subordinates in the gambling and gambling organization ring residing in Ha Tinh and Nghe An.

Through searching the suspects' residences, the authorities seized many objects and documents related to criminal activities.

Then, on July 28, 2023, working groups of the Ha Tinh Police force coordinated with relevant units to suddenly summon and arrest 9 other subjects in many other locations such as Ha Tinh, Thai Nguyen, Hanoi, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, and Bac Giang.

During the search, 2 sets of livestream equipment, 4 laptops, 13 mobile phones, 579 million VND in cash and a number of other objects, documents and electronic data were seized.

At the police station, Dam Thi Hai Ha confessed that she was the person who ran the customer service department and recruited employees to serve gambling activities in Vietnam through her subordinates Dam Thi Minh Tam (born in 1998, residing in Lien Bao commune, Vu Ban district, Nam Dinh) and Nguyen Phu Vinh (born in 1986, residing in Gia Thuy ward, Long Bien district, Hanoi).

At the same time, Ha was responsible for directly communicating with Chinese subjects operating abroad to maintain the operation of the FBSlive gambling system.

Authorities are completing documents to handle the subjects according to regulations.